New Testament TheologyThis work is not a history of New Testament times, nor an account of New Testament religion. Nor does it proceed from a view that the New Testament was written as theology. We must bear in mind that the writers of the New Testament books were not writing set theological pieces. They were concerned with the needs of the churches for which they wrote. Those churches already had the Old Testament, but these new writings became in time the most significant part of the Scriptures of the believing community. As such, they should be studied in their own right, and these questions should be asked: What do these writings mean? What is the theology they express or imply? What is of permanent validity in them? We read these writings across a barrier of many centuries and from a standpoint of a very different culture. We make every effort to allow for this, but we never succeed perfectly. In this book I am trying hard to find out what the New Testament authors meant, and this not as an academic exercise, but as the necessary prelude to our understanding of what their writings mean for us today. -- From the Introduction |
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... death and resurrection. Scholars dispute about how much of the Gospels goes back to Jesus; there are endless discussions about the authenticity of this or that saying and about that or this incident. If we are to insist on accurate ...
... death and resurrection of Jesus. Nothing in the Epistles leads us to think that the first Christians made any attempt simply to pass on what Jesus had said. They did, of course, remember it and they passed it on as its preservation in ...
... death, the death of the Cross (vv. 78). We should not miss the point that even this statement of lowliness has implications of deity. Death for us is not a matter of choice, but a necessity; for him it was the result of obedience, and ...
... death, and what Christ revealed to Paul that formed the heart and center, not only of his preaching but also of all his thinking and living. And what is at the center is Christ. IS. CHRIST. GOD? Does Paul ever in clear terms refer to ...
... death (Rom. 8:34; 14:9, 15; 1 Cor. 8:11; 15:3; Gal. 2:21). That death may be seen as effecting reconciliation (Rom. 5:1011; 2 Cor. 5:18 20; Eph. 2:16; Col. 1:20), which is much the same as making peace (Eph. 2:1415; cf. Phil. 4:7). Paul ...
Contents
the Holy Spirit | |
discipleship | |
Part three The Johannine Writings | |
the doctrine of Christ | |
God the Father | |
God the Holy Spirit | |
the Christian Life | |
The epistles of John | |
Part two The synoptic gospels and Acts | |
The gospel of Mark | |
The gospel of Matthew | |
the doctrine of God 8 The gospel of Luke and Acts the doctrine | |
Christ | |
the salvation of our | |
The revelation of John | |
Part four The general epistles | |
The epistle to the Hebrews | |
The epistle of James | |
The past epistle of Peter | |